Question

We create a custom customer attribute in Magento Enterprise (1.12.0.2) to store the users account id, thus allowing us to keep our RMS in sync with Magento.

I need to set the RMS id manually (via PHP), and then later get the RMS id. The custom attribute is a text field and it’s label is rms_id. I need to do the following:

1. Check if rms_id is set using customer id
2. If it’s not set, update the customers rms_id with a provided value

Seems straightforward, however I’m new to Magento development and cannot find a solution to this problem. All searches return results for custom product attributes, which is not the asme as a custom customer attribute. Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

/* @var $customer Mage_Customer_Model_Customer */    
$customer = Mage::getModel('customer/customer')->load({customer id});

if (!$customer->getRmsId()) {
    $customer->setRmsId({value});
    //the original version of this answer was wrong; need to use the resource model.
    $customer->getResource()->saveAttribute($customer,'rms_id');
}